Cromwell, CT(This handout is meant to be a resource. It is not meant to be exhaustive and is not a suggestion on what apps to buy or download. It is always helpful to review the ratings on apps before purchasing. For review of apps, click on the review button when you are on the app download page in iTunes. If a lite version is available, generally they are free or cheaper, so they can be a way for you to try an app. For childrens apps click on the Apps for Kids category in iTunes sidebar. For books, click on the Books category. Use the search parameters built into iTunes for apps by clicking on the apps button when your search results come up.)

To take screen shots of your various displays press the “home” and “sleep” keys at the same time. The shot will be saved in your photos and can be emailed or used in presentations.

Art

Color & Draw

Includes various types of paper and background images. You can import pictures for your background

Curious George

With virtual stickers and 45 colors, paint 56 unique pages of Curious George and friends.

Doodle Buddy

Finger paint with colors and tap the screen to include stamps on pictures or provided backgrounds.

Doodle Kids

Using a finger, draw random shapes in random colors and sizes, then shake to clear the screen

Draw for iPad

(Free) Cooperative Drawing Game

Drawing Den

A series of pages to color in.

Drawing Pad

Includes different brushes, stamps, crayons, colored pencils and different color paper for the backgrouns.

iCreate

An art program that allows you to add stamp images or your creations onto included backgrounds. Some verbal feedback provided.

iColoring Book

With many pen colors paint included images, or use downloaded images from the Internet.

Itsy Bitsy Spider

A musical color image with 70 elements to paint. You can save your image to your photos.

Touch and drag on different areas of the screen to get animated feedback of where your finger is moving.

Assistive Technology & Accessibility

There are accessibility features on the 16 and 32 GB model iTouches only and on the 3rd Gen. iPod Touchs, iPhone 3GS and iPads. These features include voice over, voice control, high contrast mode, mono audio and up to 5x zoom. For more information go to: www.apple.com/accessibility/ and click on the specific tool you would like information on for the accessibility features.

AirMouse

Install on iPhone/iTouch and computer and allows you to use the app to control the computer

Blabberize

Create talking pictures

vozMe

Type in text and it creates an mp3 file of your text

Books - Children

ABC Dinos

A dinosaur name is read and shown on each alphabetical page

Brave Monkey

Cute story that is automatically read to you. Does not highlight

Binky

A story about an elephant

Buddy #1

Story about Buddy the Bus and where he take people. You can add your voice. It reads in English, French, Japanese, Chinese, German and Spanish.

Bugs

Real photographs of bugs with the text that is read by touching Mother Goose.

Cat in the Hat

An interactive book that can be read to you or you can read where each word is highlighted and the text label of items on the page is displayed and read when touched.

Children’s Classics

Auto scrolling books from various authors, arranged alphabetically. Text only with some illustrations.

Curious George’s Puppies

The book allows you to record your own voice and is read to you page by page. It allows a large text feature

Curious George B-day

An interactive book where you discover George’s birthday surprise as you listen to the book or record your voice

Dr. Seuss’s ABC’s

An interactive book that can be read to you or you can read where each word is highlighted and the text label of items on the page is displayed and read when touched.

Emperor’s New Clothes

Can auto scroll, the text is not read aloud.

Fairy Tales

Books from Hans Christian Anderson that auto scroll at the rate you desire. Text only.

Goldilocks

Each word is highlighted as it is read to you

Grinch Who Stole Christmas

An interactive book that can be read to you or you can read where each word is highlighted and the text label of items on the page is displayed and read when touched.

Thousands of children’s books (e.g. Three Little Pigs) from 60 countries in various language with illustrations.

iLook

High Contrast, white on black picture book with 5 categories (e.g. animals, food) for young children.

iMotherGoose – Bugs

Talking picture book with full color pictures that speak the insect name when touched

iMotherGoose – Emperor’s New Clothes

The classic has been altered and contains narrations and original artwork.

iMotherGoose – Hansel and Gretel

The classic has been altered and contains narrations and original artwork.

iStoryTime Kids Books

The books are illustrated, include text, and are narrated with pages that turn automatically or manually.

Jules Verne

Contains the text of books written by Jules Verne

Little Lala

Can read or have it read to you page by page

Little Red Riding Hood

Talking, interactive book with story narration paired with text and animated objects.

Miss Spider

iPad, animated story that reads to you

The Lorax

An interactive Dr. Seuss book that can be read to you or you can read where each word is highlighted and the text label of items on the page is displayed and read when touched. Background sound effects

My Friend Isabelle

Two friends with differences in a narrated story paired with highlighted text.

Peter Rabbit

The test is read to you, each page has a hidden shape and the pages color in as they are turned

The Reading Bug – from iStory Times a library of narrated children’s books

Designed for children 2 and up. Can pick different voices and other preferences. This story is about a chameleon out to catch the reading bug.

Sesame Street Playground

Allows you to change some settings and record your own voice for this story about a lost puppy.

Spring

The simple story is read to you with sound effects.

StoryBook (a lite version is available)

A collection of stories that allows you to customize the books by genre, names, gender, ages and species. Each reading can be slightly different, introducing you to new words.

StoryKit

Easy program to create your own stories by adding in photos, text and speech. Could use for social stories and schedules.

Three Little Pigs

Interactive book with story narration paired with text. The characters can be touched to make sounds.

Toy Story

Animated book that highlights the words as they are read.

Treat Street

Simple Halloween animations containing a costume shop, Treat Street where you can interact with items on the street to get audio feedback and treats and a goodie bag. No speech or text.

Trucks

Simple story book that names and shows the text of the trucks as they are touched.

Books – Adults and Young Adults

3D Bookshelf

Includes a variety of classics

Audiobooks

Download hundreds of classic books arranged alphabetically by author.

Barnes & Nobel eReader

Allows you to download books from Barnes & Noble

BookList

Allows you to create a book list by title, author, genre and recent and do searches.

BookShelf

Borders eBooks

Allows you to download books from Borders

Classics

Contains the complete text with some illustrations of 22 classic books. You can bookmark where you are in your reading.

Cliff Notes

Available for a variety of the classic books and offers information on the plot, characters and summaries.

EngLit

Summaries and reading assistance for many books in English Literature (like Cliff Notes). Each one is a separate app.

eTextbooks

When connected to the Internet access your eTextbooks to read them and to view your notes.

It can be customized by adding your own photos. The users selects up to 8 cards in a sentence and rotates the device to present them to the listerner who reads the cards.

Going Places – Social Stories

Contains 6 video and audio social stories about going to different places

Halo Talk

by AdstraSoft this forced choice/prompting app is designed as pairs of opposites to use to offer choices from a field of two photos or to prompt by using a field of two photos. This uses the cartoon drawing of a person as well as photos.

iCommunicate

Pre-loaded pictures and storyboards/routines to facilitate language comprehension. You can record yur own speech and customize the setups.

Visual prompting tool containing original artwork for schedules, a timer, a 2 choice prompts and a library of pictures

iSpeak Spanish

Uses high quality text to speech to translate English to Spanish and Spanish to English

iSpeech

List of sounds for developmental ages 3 to 7+ with explanations for forming and teaching the sounds

iTranslate Plus

Translate words and whole sentences in 52 languages and use text to speech with 43 voices in 16 languages

Jolly Holiday

Learn prepositions while decorating the tree, then learn the signs to Rudolph the Red Nose Reindeer.

Kindergarten.com – 24 titles

Most of the apps present 1 picture with the text paired with speech, but some also work on receptive language by identifying by name, what goes together, rhymes and function.

Larry the Talking Parrot

Larry repeats your words back.

Learn to Talk

Over 160 interactive flashcards to learn nouns, verbs, early syntax and word combinations.

Locabulary Lite

Audio output for expressing phrases (hello), moods (I am happy), assistance (Call the doctor) & restaurants. Comments on iTunes said there are problems with it crashing and causing problems with Prologuo2Go.

Look2Learn – AAC

AAC system with photos and preloaded voices to express wants and needs.

Mobile Articulation Probes

Over 600 words organized by sound, to practice articulation in flashcards with user and data features

MyTalk

AAC software with photos and voice recording feature that can be used with a web authoring service